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College-Level World Language Faculty Background Characteristics and Their Perceptions of Online Language Teaching during the Pandemic
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Li Jin; Yi Xu; Elizabeth Deifell – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic enabled an unprecedented remote teaching experience for world language faculty who had to move their courses online in spring 2020. Previous studies show that faculty background characteristics affect their perceptions of and experience with online teaching. The present study examined the effect of two college-level world…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Language Teachers
Engaging in Transnational Ways of Teaching and Building a Community of Practice: Preservice Teachers' Experiences in an Online After-School Program
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Jungmin Kwon – Foreign Language Annals, 2025
Employing the concepts of transnational funds of knowledge and community practice, this ethnographic case study examines the experiences of preservice world language teachers in a year-long teaching methods course. It focuses on an online after-school program where preservice teachers taught languages and cultures to children from linguistically…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teaching Methods, Communities of Practice, Preservice Teachers
Key Issues in Foreign Language Writing
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Reichelt, Melinda; Lefkowitz, Natalie; Rinnert, Carol; Schultz, Jean Marie – Foreign Language Annals, 2012
In this article, four second language writing specialists address the following significant questions related to foreign language (FL) writing instruction: (1) How is FL writing different from English as a second language writing? (2) How does the sociolin-guistic role of a given FL influence how writing is employed in the overall curriculum for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
The Prospective Foreign Language Teacher and the Culturally and Linguistically Different Learner
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Ford, James F. – Foreign Language Annals, 1978
It was hypothesized that prospective foreign language teachers would profess significantly more positive attitudes toward American English dialect differences than would prospective teachers of other subjects (English, mathematics, and social studies). The interaction of teacher attitudes and experience abroad, university attended, and urban…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Cultural Images, Language Attitudes, Language Research
The Beginning Teacher's Cultural Competence: Goal and Strategy.
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Nostrand, Howard Lee – Foreign Language Annals, 1989
Discusses ways to define and attain the goal of cultural competence for beginning foreign language teachers. The three components of cultural competence (sociolinguistic ability, procedural and descriptive knowledge, and attitudes), and the strategy for attaining such competence, can be defined through nationwide consensus, development of database…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Cultural Awareness, Educational Needs, Higher Education
Technology and Teaching Culture: What Spanish Teachers Do
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Moore, Zena – Foreign Language Annals, 2006
This study gathered data on Spanish public school teachers' use of existing technologies to teach culture. A questionnaire gathered data on teacher background, use of technology, competence to teach culture, the inclusion of culture courses in degree programs, and courses on teaching culture. Observations over a three-year period provided…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Teacher Background, Public School Teachers, Cultural Education